Providence Daily Advertiser

Going To Law.—The object of going to law is to settle disputes. This is the direct benefit sought for; but an incidental advantage sometimes arises, where a case has been well contested, namely, that it also settles the disputants, and thus precludes the possibility of further litigation. This seems to be the moral of the following lines, in which we can assure our readers there is a great deal more of matter-of-fact than of poetry.

An upper and a lower mill
Fell out about their water;
To war they went, that is to law
Resolved to give no quarter.
A lawyer was by each engaged,
And hotly they contended;
When fees grew slack, the war they waged,
They judged were better ended.
The heavy costs remaining still,
Were settled without pother;
One lawyer took the upper mill
The lower mill the other.